Example sentences of "pay for " in BNC.

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1 He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university .
2 They payed for all this with their sweat and their lives , just like the Garrimperos today .
3 p.p.s have I got the figures about right for how much we payed for players — Beeney ( .35m ) , Kelly ( 0 ) , Dorigo ( 1.3 ) , Fairclough ( .6 ) , Wetherall ( .15 ) , Strach ( .3 ) , Speed ( 0 ) , Macca ( 1.3 ) , White ( 1.25 — this is the one I 'm most unsure of ) , Wallace ( 1.6 ) and Deane ( 2.9 ) ?
4 And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were .
5 payed for his crimes and he was
6 Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority .
7 If you are putting the lift in and paying for it yourself it is wise to take out a maintenance agreement and add the lift to your Home Contents Insurance .
8 On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people , even a cabin boy , into paying for his sherry .
9 Planning and paying for a funeral in advance .
10 They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 .
11 PLANNING AND PAYING FOR A FUNERAL IN ADVANCE
12 In this factsheet we suggest possible sources of help for services or improvements to you home ; suggest ways of finding companions or live-in help ; and list some benefits which may assist you in paying for help .
13 PAYING FOR CARE
14 PAYING FOR CARE
15 He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly .
16 It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners .
17 Mr Hartling 's predecessor , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , avoided such pitfalls by simply chartering private jets and paying for them out of his not inconsiderable private coffers .
18 It is not yet known , however , who will end up paying for the Juno project , currently being supported by the London-based Moscow Narodny Bank .
19 In future , the primary rental will be abolished , and the new costs of maintaining their own transmission systems plus paying for the licence are expected to be considerably less expensive .
20 ‘ A young lecturer is meant to be able to get friends without paying for them . ’
21 FKB is paying for the US group through an initial $3.5m in new shares , with a further $19m funded through loan notes realisable in January .
22 Public funding is being withdrawn from research and development which is of direct benefit to growers — like the evaluation of different varieties in the National Fruit Trials at Brogdale — but the Government will still be paying for a substantial amount of horticultural research at a number of centres spread across the country .
23 The investor who has a few privatisation shares and wants to extend a portfolio without paying for advice does have a cheap alternative to discretionary portfolio management .
24 In one incident alone near Smolensk , seventy-four persons were arrested for not paying for their journey .
25 This method would mean prevention of development which was definitely unsound upon recognised objective standards , and the community would still be able to engage in amenity planning under the salutary control of paying for any economic value destroyed .
26 Probably , you will end up paying for a remix .
27 Aid is now essential to Africa as any kind of external finance is essential : it is a means of paying for imports which would otherwise not be bought , about half of which are capital goods necessary for the maintenance of assets , badly depreciated after years of neglect .
28 Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ?
29 We was drinking beer so , of course , Charlie has to make us all feel small by paying for whiskies all round .
30 If you are attracted by the Weathermatic 's underwater ability , remember that you are paying for elaborate waterproofing seals , not for exceptional lens quality or advanced specifications ( even the self-timer and tripod bush have been sacrificed ) .
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